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by offby37years 6y ago
Or in January 2020 if it was contagious at all: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
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by offby37years 6y ago
Groups search for consensus, individuals for truth. Without consensus groups fracture. Without truth we're destined for the next dark age.
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Google unions around the world form Alpha Global alliance(engadget.com)
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You're describing an artificial minority maintained through means-testing. That's not UBI.
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The dose makes the poison. The universal nature drastically increases the proportion, from a single-digit minority to a majority approaching 99%, who stand to benefit from increased redistribution. From there it's a spiral to complete
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by offby37years 6y ago
It simultaneously incentivises skilled emigration and unskilled immigration. It would drive an exodus of any entrepreneurial talent.
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by offby37years 6y ago
Keyword: Universal basic income.
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by offby37years 6y ago
UBI is a death sentence within direct democracies short of robot/AI provided abundance. Introduction beforehand sows the seed for a direct transfer of wealth from the 49% haves to the 51% have-nots.
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Amazon presses for in-person voting for unionization election(washingtonpost.com)
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That complexity is meaningful as it precludes precise modelling. Now that does not mean we should not curb CO2 emissions, rather it is the degree of opacity and uncertainty in a system, as well as asymmetry in effect, rather than specific m
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by offby37years 6y ago
There are 2 types of people. Those who think in statics and those who think in dynamics. Climate change is not basic back of the envelope calculation specifically because we're dealing with a dynamic system. The more complex the world,
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Social Networks Are the Next Big Decentralization Opportunity(coindesk.com)
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"Private companies can do what they want"
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by offby37years 6y ago
No difference to EU dictating GDPR laws.
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You'd need an entire farm.
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by offby37years 6y ago
The Bitcoin market cap is currently $653B. It's larger than all but 15 fiat currencies[1]. [1] https://fiatmarketcap.com/
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by offby37years 6y ago
It’s not so much Bitcoin going up as the US dollar going down. An unprecedented fifth of all US dollars were printed just last year. As predicted just two days ago[1], Bitcoin (and decentralisation in general) will be attacked under the gui
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Biden's Treasury Secretary: Cryptocurrencies a “Concern” in Terrorist Financing(finance.yahoo.com)
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Almost as if reporting reality is secondary to furthering ideological narratives, and from Reuters no less.
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I'm not condoning the narrative, rather the opposite. Technocrats will attack decentralisation as it threatens their hegemony. My claim is they'll sell it under the guise of preventing domestic terrorism.
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by offby37years 6y ago
Prediction, Bitcoin (and decentralisation in general) will be attacked as a vessel for circumvention of financial establishment right-wing censorship next. We must regulate it to prevent fundraising for another insurrection.
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Twitter CEO @jack Detailing Agenda For Further Political Censorship(twitter.com)
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It is a communication monopoly.
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If you need a hole dug by tomorrow and you have $1k to spend, you can either: - Pay one person ($1k) with an excavator - Pay ten people ($100/each) with shovels
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Silicon Valley Opens Its Wallet for Joe Biden(wired.com)
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If he actually said anything directly calling for violence CNN and MSNBC would have had that clip on repeat for the last week.
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by offby37years 6y ago
This should be worryingly obvious, with former Democratic Party staffers filling FAANG ranks, e.g. Andy Stone who is now Facebook’s policy communications manager: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-
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by offby37years 6y ago
> I don’t think you can, but, so what? https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1347574973972545536 https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080
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by offby37years 6y ago
As a software engineer your leverage should be higher than near any other profession. This is why SV engineers are paid handsomely. Your productive output eclipses that of any profession without force multipliers. Your income should not be
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by offby37years 6y ago
This memo contains no new information. It almost certainly confirms multiple vying factions within the military, otherwise why release this.

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